[cisco-nas] Re: [nsp] l2tp-cpu load

[Matyas Szilard]

Hi,

 We have NPE-G1 with: ~40 l2tp tunnel ~5000 session
 CPU:~50%
 Process Mem: ~100Mbyte
 Traffic:~300Mbit , ~40kpps one way
           ~60Mbit,  35kpps other way

Regards

 szicsu

> ---- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hank Nussbacher" <hank at att.net.il>
> To: "Andy Furnell" <andy at furnell.org.uk>
> Cc: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [nsp] l2tp-cpu load
>
>
> > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Andy Furnell wrote:
> >
> > The 16,000 number probably came from here:
> >
>
http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns242/c666/ccmigration_09186a008015d4d2.pdf
> > It refers to the NPE-G1
> >
> > -Hank
> >
> > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:05:26AM +0000, H S wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi !!
> > > >
> > > >      I have a Cisco 3640 and have set up an l2tp tunnel. I wonder
how
> > > > many simultaneous sessions will it support. Currently, I have an
> average of
> > > > 16 sessions and 26 % of CPU load. The traffic through the interface
is
> not
> > > > much (1 Mbps) and (400 pps) I?m planning to change the 3640 by a
7204
> > > > (NPE-400) but I would like to know it?s limitation on this issue.
> > > > Could anyone advise me?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance!!!!
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Hugo
> > >
> > > Hi Hugo,
> > >
> > > I had an NPE-400 terminating ~1500 l2tp dial sessions at around 45%
> CPU...
> > > This box was also handling a couple of PA-MC-E3 and a PA-MC-STM1 with
a
> total
> > > traffic load of about 35mbit/sec and ~15kpps. This took some messing
> around
> > > to get CPU usage below 60%... PPP compression is right out the window,
> > > and vpdn ignore udp checksum in your global config will reduce CPU
usage
> by
> > > another 10-15%. The only problems we ran into were with virtual-access
> > > interfaces not being re-used - the only solution for this at the time
> was
> > > to reload the machine every month, but this bug may well be fixed in a
> more
> > > recent IOS release. As far as IOS releases go, we had the best luck
with
> > > 12.2(8)T, although I've heard good things about11T and 15T, as well as
> 12.3
> > > mainline.
> > >
> > > Remember the number of tunnels will affect performance much more than
> the
> > > number of sessions... if you can aggregate the l2tp tunnels so only
one
> tunnel
> > > is presented to your LNS you'll get much better performance than if
> you're
> > > forming hundreds of l2tp tunnels to hundreds of LACs with a similar
> number
> > > of active sessions.
> > >
> > > If the cash is there you'll have get much better performance from an
> NPE-G1.
> > > >From speaking to people using them as a broadband LNS they seem to be
> able
> > > to take an STM-1's worth of traffic in about 5500 sessions without
> breaking
> > > a sweat :)
> > >
> > > A
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andy Furnell
> > > andy at furnell.org.uk
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> > Hank Nussbacher
> >
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